Typographical machine.



J. R. ROGERS.

TYPOGRAPHICAL MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 20,1911.

Patented Aug. 31, 1915.

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INVENTOR M "i Allarney J. R. ROGERS.

TYPOGRAPHICAL MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 20.1911

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jl TATE T PAEN @KQ JOHN ROGERS, OF BROOKLYN, NEVT YORK, ASSIGNOR TO MERGEN THA LER LINOTYPE COMPANY, A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK. I

TYPOGRAPHICAL MACHINE.

Application filed July 20, 1911.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that 1, JOHN RAPHAEL Rosnns, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Brooklyn, county of Kings, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Typographical Machines, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to typographical machines, and more particularly to that class thereof known to the public under the name Linotype and of the general organization illustrated and described in Letters Patent of the United States to O. Mergenthaler, NO. 436,532.

In the particular respects herein illustrated and described, the invention relates to the distributing mechanism, and more specifically to the appliances for securing a preliminary separation of the matrices into their respective fonts, after which they are conveyed to the appropriate magazines and individually distributed. Such a mechanism is disclosed in U. S. Letters Patent to John R. Rogers No. 890,303, although the connected parts herein are Or may be differently related and applied.

Notwithstanding the special application of my improvements to a font distributer, it will be obvious that they may be used in connection with other distributing mechanisms; and generally speaking I desire it to be distinctly understood that I do not limit myself to any specific form or embodiment except in so far as such limitations are specified in the claims.

In the present instance, as in the Rogers patent above mentioned, after-the slug is cast, the line of matrices is lifted in the usual manner by the second elevator for distribution. From the second elevator they pass through a primary distributer box to a short distributer bar, where they are separated according to font for the different magazines. This bar is provided with groups of teeth separated by blank spaces, so that as each matrix advances along the bar, it will be engaged by the successive groups of teeth but will be released from the bar during its travel across the intervening spaces. Beneath the path of the matrices, asthey travel along the bar, are stationary bridges or selectors, one being located beneath each of the blank spaces on'the bar. These bridges clorrespondto' the matrices of Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 31, 1915. Serial no. 639,588.

the different fonts and are distinguished from one another by a different arrangement of upright ridges on their faces. As it advances, each matrix 'will accordingly ride on the bridge while crossing a blank space and will again engage the teeth of the distributor bar at the next succeeding point,

thus advancing alternately by riding on a bridge or being suspended by the teeth of the bar until it reaches the bridge to which its notches correspond. It then settles astride the ridges of this bridge and as this brings it below the teeth of the distributer bar, it then drops into the next space between the bridges. Such is the general arrangement of the parts not only in the pres ent instance but in the Rogers patent previously referred to. In said patent, after the matrices are thus divided into fonts and are permitted to drop through the spaces be tween the bridges, they are moved to the right or left to a definite position directly over a lifting slide, by which they are again carried upward to an ordinary distributing mechanism of the Mergenthaler type. In the present instance, this specific mode of handling the separated matrices is not necessarily followed and any suitable method of conveying them to the further distributing apparatus may be employed, the object of the herein presented devices being generally to improve upon the mechanism of the said Rogers patent and to secure additional advantageou features in connection therewith. The results and objects thus sought will be apparent from the drawings and the following description and the specific mechanical improvements will be found embodied in the claims.

' Referring to the drawings: Figure 1 is a front perspective view of the font distributer, with the door removed and the other parts shown in normal operative position; Fig. 2 is a somewhat similar perspective view showing the'parts in different position; Fig. 3 is a transverse vertical section of the parts as shown in Fig. 1-; Fig. 4 is a similar verticalseetion showing the parts in different position; and Fig. 5 is a detached detail view, illustrating more particularly the mounting of the bridges or selectors on their supports.

Referring to the drawings, the distributer A is provided with the gate or door Bpiv- ,otally'mountedat B on the frame F, which frame in turn is also pivotally arranged in the manner subsequently to be described. The door B may be swung about its pivot 13 to give access to the interior parts, as shown more particularly in Fig. 4. The distributer is also provided with the usual screws C, D and E, and with the grooved bar or rail H, all in the manner well known in the art. Motion is imparted to the screws D and E by the driving pinion G mounted upon the powcr-shaft G, the pinion G meshing into pinions D and E connected respectively to the screws D and E, as indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 3. The screw C is rotated by a pinion C connected thereto and meshing into a second pinion D connected to the screw D. In other words, the screws D and E are driven in one direction by the pinion G and the screw C is driven in the opposite direction from the screw D.

The distributer rail H is not rigidly mounted as in the said Rogers patent but is formed with a spindle H which is pivotally mounted in hangers H connected to the framework, see more particularly Figs. 2 and 4. Due to this longitudinal pivotal arrangement of the distributer bar, it may be swung outwardly (see Fig. l) so as to clear the matrices from the screws and bridges and to permit their manipulation, removal, or replacement in the event of jamming, displacement, breakage, or other untoward accident. This feature is of importance in affording complete accessibility to the matrices and other parts, and thus obviates objections which sometimes occur in the operation of the machine.

It will be obvious that to permit the outward pivotal movement of the bar H and the free manipulation of the matrices thereon, it is necessary first to remove the outer matrix-engaging screw C from its normal operative position. This is accomplished by mounting the screw C in the before-mentioned frame F which is pivotally mounted about and in concentric relation to the screw D, as more clearly shown in Fig. 4. Fig. 3 illustrates the parts in normal or operative position, and Fig. l shows them in their opened-out condition, namely, with the door B swung about its pivot B the frame F moved upwardly about the screw D, and the rail H swung outwardly to clear the matrices J from engagement with the screws D and E and the other interior devices.

As previously stated, the screw C is rotated by the pinion C thereon meshing into the pinion D on the screw D, and due to the swinging movement of the frame F about the screw D as a center, it will be obvious that when the parts assume the position shown in Fig. 4 and also in Fig. 2, the screw C has been moved outwardly without disconnecting the pinions C and D This construction and arrangement are of importance, as they preserve the normal relations of the screws 0 and D, which result would not be certainly obtained were it necessary to disconnect the pinions C and D It is of course essential that the threads on each of the three screws, C, D, and E, should preserve the same exact relations to each other in operation. Were itnecessary to disengage the pinions C and D this relation would be destroyed and upon the reengagement of the pinions it could not be easily restored. Due, however, to the constant engagement of the pinions D and E with the driving pinion G and the concentric movement of the pinion C about the pinion D when the screw C is swung outwardly and then returned to operative position, the harmonious relations of the screws 0, D and E and of the threads thereon are never affected or disturbed. A movable locking arm 0 normally holds the frame F in its operative position, as shown in Fig. 1, and may be moved to permit the swinging of the frame to its inoperative position, as shown in Fig. 2.

The distributer rail H is. formed in the manner previously described, namely, with groups of teeth separated by blank spaces, and as the matrices J are passed along it, they are sustained by the teeth and at the blank spaces by the ridges L on the bridges or selectors L, see more particularly Figs. 3, 4 and 5. The distributer is also provided with a block A formed with recesses A corresponding in position to the groups of teeth on the distributer rail H, and with plane faces A corresponding in position to the blank spaces between the teeth. The faces A are located in close relation to the sides of the matrices J and tend to guide and hold them so that they will be accurately alined with reference to the ridges L on the bridges or selectors L, the upper ears of the matrices projecting over and above the up per surface of the block A In the event that a matrix is released from the bar H by reason of its notches J corresponding in position to the ridges L on a bridge or selector L, it drops thereover and as the screws carry it forward in the customary manner, it does not reengage with the distributer rail but falls downwardly after it is freed from engagement with the bridge or selector, the recesses A permitting the upper ear of the matrix to clear the block A The bridges or selectors L have their ridges L to correspond to different fonts and magazines, and consequently it is desirable that they should be readily interchangeable in relation to the different magazines employed. They are, therefore, preferably detachably mounted upon their supports K, and in the particular form herein illustrated, they are formed with dove-tail grooves L which may be slid over so as to engage corresponding dove-tail formations K upon the supports K, see more particularly Fig. 5. They are held securely in their adjusted position by the door B, Which When closed, abuts against them, as shown in Fig. 3. When a magazine is changed, it is necessary simply to open the door B, to slide off the corresponding bridge L, and to replace it With an appropriate one.

Having thus described my invention, What I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States is as follows:

1. Font separating mechanism comprising a distributer bar formed With ribbed portions and intermediate blank portions, and a series of selecting bridges underlying the blank portions of the bar, the said bridges being interchangeable in position with each other to efiect an alteration in the separating mechanism.

2. Font separating mechanism comprising a distributer bar formed With ribbed portions and intermediate blank portions, and a series of selecting bridges underlying the blank portions of the bar, the said bridges being removably mounted so as to be replaced by others of unlike form to adapt the mechanism for handling matrices of other fonts.

3. Font separating mechanism comprising in combination a distributer bar formed with ribbed portions and intermediate blank portions, a series of selecting bridges underlying the blank portions of the bar, and laterally projecting supports for the sustaining bridges, said bridges being connected to the supports by dove-tailed connections to permit their ready removal and re placement at Will.

4:. Font separating mechanism comprising in combination a distributer bar formed With ribbed portions and intermediate blank portions, a series of selecting bridges underlying the blank portions of the bar and removable transversely thereof, and a swinging door to guide the matrices through the separating mechanism and adapted When in its operative position to hold the selecting bridges against removal.

In testimony Whereof I hereunto set my hand this 19th day of July, 1911, in the presence of two attesting Witnesses.

JOHN RAPHAEL ROGERS.

WVitnesses:

WM. J. Donna, L. C. MORRISON.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G. 

